



Jerrold R. Griggs
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Education
| Ph.D. | Applied Mathematics | MIT, Cambridge, MA | 1977 |
| B.A. | Mathematics | Pomona College | 1973 |
Experience
| 2008 – Present | Chair | Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina |
| 2008 – Present | Carolina Distinguished Professor | University of South Carolina |
| 2006 – 2008 | Interim Chair | Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina |
| 1988 – Present | Professor | Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina |
| 1983 – 1988 | Associate Professor | Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina |
| 1981 – 1983 | Assistant Professor | Department of Mathematics, Univ. of South Carolina |
| 1979 – 1981 | Assistant Professor | University of Hawaii |
| 1977 – 1979 | Bateman Research Inst. | California Institute of Technology |
Research
Research Interests
- combinatorics
- extremal set theory
- extremal graph theory
- graph coloring
- operations research
- applications of discrete math to biology
- number theory
- analysis of algorithms
- communications
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Teaching Activities
Previous Courses
- Math 546 - Algebraic Structures I
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Honors and Other Special Scientific Recognition
- 1999 - USC Russell Research Award in Science and Engineering
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Selected Publications
- J. R. Griggs, W.-T. Li, and L. Lu, Diamond-free families, J. Combinatorial Theory (ser. A) 119 (2012), 310-322.
- J. R. Griggs and L. Lu, On families of subsets with a forbidden subposet, Combin., Prob., and Computing 18 (2009), 731–748.
- J. R. Griggs and D. Kr´al’, Graph labellings with variable weights, a survey, Disc. Appl. Math. 157 (2009), 2646–2658.
- J. R. Griggs and G. O. H. Katona, No four subsets forming an N, J. Combin. Th. (ser. A) 115 (2008), 677–685.
- J. R. Griggs and X. T. Jin, Real number graph labelings with distance conditions, SIAM J. Disc. Math. 20 (2006), 302–327.
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IMI Preprints and Seminars
Go to the list of 16 preprints and 1 seminar by Jerrold R. Griggs.BACK TO TOP


